Speaking at a special Blade Runner event to celebrate the original film, Denis told the audience what he could about Blade Runner 2049, due out on October 6

And whilst he was more than a little vague on the deets, he did admit that his iteration is a ‘very different movie’ to Ridley Scott’s original.

Ryan Gosling is in the new Blade Runner 2049 which is enough reason to go and see it (Picture: Warner Bros/Blade Runner 2049)

‘It was my goal to pay homage, be faithful to the atmosphere, the rhythm, the poetry of the first movie,’ the 49-year-old Canadian director hinted.

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‘But at the same time I’m a totally different filmmaker, so it’s a different movie.’

Earlier in the month Denis compared Jared Leto’s performance as blind scientist Npiander Wallace to ‘Jesus walking into a temple’ – a pretty big accolade, sure, but that hasn’t stopped him wondering what other will think of the movie as a whole.

When asked what he thinks people will make of Blade Runner 2049, he said that, as he had only finished putting the final touches to the movie a month ago, he was ‘too close’ to the movie to be able to give an opinion – but he sure is anticipating what you all think of it.